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Asiphonate :: Asiphonate (n.) An asiphonate mollusk.

Siphonarid :: Siphonarid (n.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.

Siphonobranchiate :: Siphonobranchiate (n.) One of the Siphonobranchiata.

Velella :: Velella (n.) Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.

Siphonic :: Siphonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.

Siphonophoran :: Siphonophoran (a.) Belonging to the Siphonophora.

Siphonate :: Siphonate (a.) Having a siphon or siphons.

Siphonium :: Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible..

Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group..

Sprack :: Spoutshell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

Siphonostomatous :: Siphonostomatous (a.) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.

Siphonostome :: Siphonostome (n.) Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

Caoutchouc :: Caoutchouc (n.) A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used c

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.

Nectocalyx :: Nectocalyx (n.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ..

Physaliae :: Physaliae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.

Nectostem :: Nectostem (n.) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.

Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..

Asiphonida :: Asiphonida (n. pl.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks..

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